Subject: Re: NetBSD-current crashes if you ping it hard
To: Seppo Kallio <kallio@jyu.fi>
From: Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@postgres.Berkeley.EDU>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 04/25/1994 21:45:55
> The command
> 
> % ping -s NetBSD-host 32000
> 
> is crashing NetBSD-current. (Binary about 16 Apr)

I couldn't even get a machine to ping with that big a packet size,
let alone replicate the bug you reported...

(1) what kind of machine did you ping the NetBSD host from?
	(i'd suspect a Sun)
(2) what does that command do?
	(i'd suspect, ping the NetBSD host with 32000-byte packets)
(3) what kind of hardware are you using for the NetBSD host?


i guess Sun for (1), because it's the only host i could find that
accepts the syntax you describe, assuming a sane meaning (e.g.
that in (2)).  However, even it refused to do the ping, complaining:

211 [fraud] cgd % uname -a
SunOS fraud.ber 4.1.3_U1 1 sun4c
212 [fraud] cgd % ping -s pain.cs 32000
ping: packet size too large

(and pain's on the same enet as fraud is...)


chris

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